sublimatio

Latin

Alternative forms

• 🝞ātiō (alchemy)

Etymology

sublīmō +‎ -tiō

Noun

sublīmātiō f (genitive sublīmātiōnis); third declension

1. (chemistry, physics) sublimation
2. (Medieval Latin) exaltation
   • 12th century, Peter Cellensis, “In Annuntiatione Dominica IV.”, in Sermones, sermon 25:

     Quam mirabile est Deum hominem fieri, tam grande est hominem in Deum assumi. Indicibilis est illa Dei exinanitio; ineffabilis est hominis sublimatio.

     It is as wonderful for God to be made man as it is great for man to be assumed into God. That emptying of God is inexpressible; the exaltation of man is ineffable.

3. (Medieval Latin) accession to a throne
   • 1273, Rudolf I of Germany, Codex Epistolaris Rudolfi I. Rom. Regis, Epistolas CCXXX. Anecdotas Continens, published 1806, letter 4, page 5:

     qualiter in sublimationis nostrae principiis operata sit gratia Deitatis

     how the grace of the Divine nature was at work in the beginning of our accession

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sublīmātiō	sublīmātiōnēs
Genitive	sublīmātiōnis	sublīmātiōnum
Dative	sublīmātiōnī	sublīmātiōnibus
Accusative	sublīmātiōnem	sublīmātiōnēs
Ablative	sublīmātiōne	sublīmātiōnibus
Vocative	sublīmātiō	sublīmātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: sublimation
• French: sublimation
• Italian: sublimazione
• Portuguese: sublimação
• Romanian: sublimație
• Spanish: sublimación

References

• “sublimatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sublimatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sublimatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “sublimatio”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill